Deaf Dogs and Benevolent Gnomes

We've had some family (actually pretty much the whole family) in town since last week, and as such, normal blogging activities have been...

There's a great article in Vanity Fair this month on California's money woes, the economic issues in the US, and the tremendous prob...

In case you missed it or need to get caught up, you can read previous posts about my homemade tomato cages Part 1 here and Part 2 here . ...

Alycia and I spent the past weekend in Portland, Oregon, attending the wedding of our good friends Emma and Geoff.  It's always a great ...

Outside of San Diego, few people have heard of him, but Jerry Schad was a San Diego institution.  Though I've never even met him, I feel...

OK I lied, the pickles aren't really on parade.  But my How to Make Bread and Butter Pickles post did get picked up by Associated Cont...

The locally respected Farmers Almanac says that the average first frost date for our neck of the woods - Grand Forks, North Dakota is Septem...

This is what happens when you're not super vigilant about harvesting your cucumbers every single day.  They can get unruly.... That...